Fighting their own battles

Description:

Behnken examines the history of both the African American and Mexican American civil rights struggles in Texas, exploring the racial prejudices, cultural dissimilarities, class tensions, organizational differences, and geographical distance that all worked to create two separate civil rights movements.

subjects: Race relations,  Civil rights,  Ethnic relations,  School integration,  Civil rights movements,  Mexican Americans,  Relations with Mexican Americans,  African Americans,  History,  African americans, civil rights,  Civil rights movements, united states,  United states, race relations,  United states, ethnic relations

Places: Texas

Times: 20th century